Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

Geographical Conditions of Manufacture 237 burgh in Pennsylvania, Birmingham in England, and Essen in Germany are examples of great cities which owe much of their growth to the fact that the presence of coal has favored the development of iron in- dustries. Waler power. In many industries water power serves the same pur- pose as coal. The waterfalls of northern New York and New England turn the wheels of wood-pulp and paper mills that furnish much of the paper on which daily newspapers are printed. In the wheat region of the United States, falls determine the location of wheat-milling centers, as Minneapolis at St. Anthony’s Falls on the Mississippi River. The falls along the lower course of the Merrimac River are one of the chief reasons why cotton mills developed there in great numbers at an early date. More recently the water power of the piedmont belt at the foot of the mountains in the Carolinas and Georgia, together with the presence of abundant raw material, has brought about the location of many cotton mills at such cities as Greensboro and Charlotte, in North Caro- lina, and Columbia, in South Carolina (Fig. 12). Advances in electrical engineering now make it possible for power from rivers to be conveyed long distances in the form of electricity, as in North Carolina, and at Niagara Falls. In the Pacific states several Fig. 159. Mills on the Connecticut River, run by water power, with steam as auxiliary. Few of the great mills in New England now depend wholly on water power. When the rivers run low. if at no other time. steam is nsed: ntherwise the mills wonld be forced to shut down.

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